hum

Ask no questions
seek no people

Buddhism, I repeat, is a hundred times more austere, more honest, more objective. It no longer has to justify its pains, its susceptibility to suffering, by interpreting these things in terms of sin - it simply says, as it simply thinks, “I suffer.” To the barbarian, however, suffering in itself is scarcely understandable: what he needs, first of all, is an explanation as to why he suffers. (His mere instinct prompts him to deny his suffering altogether, or to endure it in silence.) Here the word “devil” was a blessing: man had to have an omnipotent and terrible enemy - there was no need to be ashamed of suffering at the hands of such an enemy.

Tamarin monkeys feel revenge. Experimenters trained one monkey to always cheat when playing a game with other monkeys. Victims of the cheater “would go nuts” when they saw the cheater enter the adjoining test chamber. Victims “would throw their feces at the wall, walk into a corner and sit on their hands”.

In four months
I have lost
and gained weight
killed god and
found faith, swam
less and less
as it got
colder, in winter

La sola regola eroica: essere soli soli soli.
Quando passerai una giornata senza presupporre né implicare in nessun tuo gesto o pensiero la presenza di altri, potrai chiamarti eroico.

Technology is telepathy

I might live
until I’m 78
I can’t wait

The day before
this, I saw
no trees. The
day before you
I knew no
truth. Today is
on me and
it’s all free

Listen

Nothing, really, is more moving than the maddened beast, dying from unfulfilled desire and asking in vain for grace to quell its passion.